时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2014年


英语课

 August 29th, 2005.


America suffers its most destructive natural disaster. Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm blows ashore 1 in Southeast Louisiana, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate 2. Katrina kills eighteen hundred people across the Gulf 3 Coast, destroying or severely 4 damaging homes from Alabama and Mississippi to New Orleans.   80% of the Big Easy is swamped when the city’s levees break after the storm strikes. Hundreds of thousands of residents and about a million others in surrounding areas are forced to flee. But Katrina’s howling winds also drive thousands to Superdome and to the New Orleans Convention Center for shelter, most of them, the poorest of the poor, unwilling 5 or unable to heed 6 the evacuation orders. Looting and violence later break out in the city where the initial sluggish 7 response to Katrina only adds to the misery 8.
“We could go and help in tsunami 9, but we can’t help our own people, we’ve been sleeping in the streets for five days and nights.”
Government officials, federal state and local all face sharp criticism for their handling of the catastrophe 10, from President Bush and Federal Emergency Management Agency Chief Michael Brown to Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Despite some progress and rebuilding after Katrina, recovery for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast remains 11 a long hard road, while debate over the disaster goes on. Today in History, August 29th. Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.

adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
adv.严格地;严厉地;非常恶劣地
  • He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
  • He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。
adj.不情愿的
  • The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
  • His tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。
v.注意,留意;n.注意,留心
  • You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
  • For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。
adj.懒惰的,迟钝的,无精打采的
  • This humid heat makes you feel rather sluggish.这种湿热的天气使人感到懒洋洋的。
  • Circulation is much more sluggish in the feet than in the hands.脚部的循环比手部的循环缓慢得多。
n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦
  • Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
  • He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
n.大灾难,大祸
  • I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
  • This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
学英语单词
aby warburgs
advice of transfer of letter of credit
age class structure
amphigenesis
anagrelide
Aspidosperma quebracho
bar code sensor
base attribute
Brans-Dicke theory
broad chisel
bucket-boom excavator
burning on
buttmunch
categorize
clindamycin-induced colitis
CO2laser
come out of the closet
common plough
complex of a curve
conservative-
creos
dalechampia roezliana muel. arg.
demipenniform
depressor labii inferioris
dequincy
double screw-teeth bit
doubly labeled water
Endosporae
Feock
Formosan cypress
Frangilla
gas-lift intermitter
Grimmiaceae
have the wrong sow by the ear
high-rolling
hill's method
hole gage
ilgen
immaterialisms
inflecting language
input spectral density
Japan Trench
Khaibar
kilt pins
koi-keeper
land planning
local traffic revenue
made a splash
mal del sole
mauleon
Mechtersen
merang
midgrounds
Ministry of Aircaft Production
misdelivery
mixed pickies
moviegoers
multifibre
Nichrome
nocturnal deliria
obertas
old-growth forest
onxes
outs-of-dateness
overhead luggage rack
paleothere
paper-chain
polyphase node
public body
QUABBING A TWAB
quill spindle
rattlesnake root
refabricated
RVOT
Salmon I.
sampling risk of acceptance
shear loss
slab formwork
sling plate method of launching
sororial
spheric seating nut
St. Kitts and Nevis
starnie
take someone prisoner
tar cement
tax-gatherers
teli
text-types
toranius
trezza
trial by ordeal
twin rotor condenser
ultrasonic weld
underwater diving
unreasoned
upper front
urethrotrigonitis
watermelon radish
weedbind
wilbon
z-point equal-interval searches
zografos